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The Chief Minister, who was away in Digha on an official

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Press Trust of India
Last Updated : Feb 15 2013 | 1:25 AM IST
programme since Tuesday, earlier visited the family of the Special Branch sub-inspector Tapas Chowdhury, who was shot dead on February 12 at Garden reach area. She said, "Law will take its own course and my one line is enough. FIRs were not lodged against some more persons. Why it was not done, I will inquire. It has to be done." "It's a personal loss to me. I have known him and his family for a long time. The incident happened when I was at a programme at Nandigram. I heard it on the way," Banerjee, who is in charge of the Home (police) department, said after the 15-minute visit. She said the slain SI's wife, Minati, would get all the financial benefits, including increment and promotion due to the officer till his scheduled retirement in 2017. The chief minister said the family would be given Rs 15 lakh as insurance accident benefit and another Rs five lakh by her government. An additional Rs five lakh would be given from the chief minister's relief fund for the officer's aged mother to meet her medical expenses and for an unmarried sister, Banerjee said.

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First Published: Feb 15 2013 | 1:25 AM IST

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